Spicy Game Day Recipes for your Super Bowl Party

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TABASCO® Original Red. All opinions are 100% mine.

Are you ready for some football???? I am! I know the Baltimore Ravens are not playing but I am still up for watching a good game, seeing some crazy fun commercials and eating way too much yummy food. I was looking around for some game day recipes and I came across the Tabasco Pizza Perfected page and saw some really good ideas for pizza. Of course, everyone uses Tabasco sauce to add flavor to lots of things, but pizza? I never thought about it...until today that is.  

If you are anything like me, you will not be sitting still for the entire game. I move around a lot while watching the game and I am always chasing after a three year old so I need to make sure the food I make is fairly portable. Pizza is perfect for the game. It is more than a snack, does not require utensils, and I can eat it while in motion.

Here are a few pizza recipes you can try.

Spicy Margherita Pizza Recipe

It is a game day version of my normal margherita pizza recipe that we make all the time.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup of water
1 tbs oil
1 tbs sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tbs dry milk
2 1/4 cups bread flour
1 tsp active dry yeast
spray cooking oil
1 tbs olive oil
course salt
fresh ground black pepper
1 can of diced tomatoes (14.5 oz.), drained
1/4 cup of your favorite tomato pasta sauce
1/4 cup of TABASCO® Original Red sauce
8 oz fresh mozzarella cheese, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1/4 chopped fresh basil
1 tsp corn meal

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place the first 7 ingredients in your bread machine and select the pizza dough cycle (yep, that easy). When the cycle ends, remove from the machine and place dough into a very lightly sprayed large bowl. Cover and let rise for another hour or two.
3. Flour work area and roll out the pizza dough to fit your pizza pan (or cookie sheet).
4. Sprinkle pan with corn meal and place pizza crust dough in the pan.
5. Approximately every 2 inches, poke the dough with a fork and then drizzle with olive oil and brush to coat. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
6. Bake for 5 minutes and remove from oven.
7. Mix tomato and TABASCO® Original Red sauces in a small bowl.
8. Cover the pizza crust with Tabasco sauce mix, diced tomatoes and mozzarella cheese.
9. Return to oven and bake for approximately 10 - 15 minutes. The cheese will be bubbly and starting to brown.
10. Sprinkle with fresh basil, cut and serve.

Here is another recipe. It is a different take on the traditional buffalo chicken dip that we all love but now you can have it on a pizza.

Buffalo Chicken Pizza Recipe

Ingredients:

3/4 cup of water
1 tbs oil
1 tbs sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tbs dry milk
2 1/4 cups bread flour
1 tsp active dry yeast
spray cooking oil
3 boneless skinless chicken breasts, diced
1 small can tomato paste
1 cup water
TABASCO® Original Red sauce to taste, 1/2 cup
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, optional
2 cloves garlic, grated
1/2 teaspoon oregano
olive oil
kosher salt
pepper
 

Toppings
1/2 cup blue cheese
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese
1/3 green pepper, sliced
1/3 red pepper, sliced
1/4 medium onion, sliced
6-8, or a small bunch of green onions, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place the first 7 ingredients in your bread machine and select the pizza dough cycle (yep, that easy). When the cycle ends, remove from the machine and place dough into a very lightly sprayed large bowl. Cover and let rise for another hour or two.
3. While dough is rising, prepare chicken. Add salt, pepper, cayenne, and paprika to chicken.
4. Preheat a large skillet.
5. Drizzle with olive oil.
6. Add chicken to skillet and brown.
7. Add tomato paste, water, TABASCO® Original Red sauce and oregano.
8. Bring to a boil, and reduce to a simmer. Simmer until sauce is very thick.
9. Remove dough from bowl.
10. Flour work area and roll out the pizza dough to fit your pizza pan (or cookie sheet).
11. Sprinkle pan with corn meal and place pizza crust dough in the pan.
12. Approximately every 2 inches, poke the dough with a fork.
13. Bake for 5 minutes and remove from oven.
14. Top pizza dough with Tabasco sauce mixture and chicken.
15. Add 1 cup of the cheese.
16. Add the vegetables, blue cheese and the rest of the mozzarella cheese.
17. Bake at 425 degrees until cheese has melted and begin to brown.
18. Cut and serve.

Don't have time to make a homemade pizza for game day? Don't worry, Tabasco has Pizza Perfected. They got you covered with 10 ways to doctor up your delivery pizza.

Want more game day ideas? Check out Tabasco's Game-Day Party Menu. It is chock-full of great recipes and ideas for your Super Bowl party.